A private clinic in Monterey, California, is offering people a $8000 pump of teenage and young adult blood in a bid to reverse ageing.
The clinic, Ambrosia, is owned by 32-year-old Jesse Karmazin, a graduate of Princeton University. She insists most revellers see improvements within a month.
While Karmazin hopes to raise $4.8 million from 600 patients, clinicians have dismissed the practice, claiming it to be poorly designed and even a scam, Business Insider reports..
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Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray stresses the flaw of Ambrosia lies in the fact it is funded by participants and not investors.
"People want to believe that young blood restores youth, even though we don't have evidence that it works in humans and we don't understand the mechanism of how mice look younger," he said. "I think people are just attracted to it because of vampire stories."
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Karmazin responded, "I think the animal and retrospective data is compelling, and I want this treatment to be available to people."
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